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10 Apps Every College Student Needs

Making your life better one app at a time.

Hailey Gelbert

Apr 04, 2016

Bucknell

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It is a known fact that college students always have their phones glued to their hands. We use our phones to help us do homework, to help us procrastinate and to help us avoid eye contact with unwanted people. So, it is safe to say that our phones make our lives ten-times easier. We appreciate our phones and the hundreds of apps we have on them almost as much as we appreciate a good home-cooked meal on a well needed break. Here are the apps that every college student should have on their phone.

1. Snapchat

Your phone just isn't complete if you don't have Snapchat. It's the easiest way to communicate with your friends and to brighten their day by sending them an ugly picture of you or a picture of you as a dog.

2. Instagram

Instagram is a pretty obvious one. How else would you prove to the people from your high school that you're having an amazing time in college?

3. Venmo

Need to pay your friends back for that time they ordered food for you? Forgot your wallet at the mall so your friend had to spot you? Venmo's got your back.

4. Find My iPhone

Find My iPhone lets you track your phone when you can't find it so if you have the app and lose your phone at a random frat party, you know you'll be OK.

5. GroupMe

If you hate being bombarded with hundreds of iMessages, GroupMe is the app for you. It's organized, allows you to "like" other people's messages, and best of all, you can send GIFs.

6. 1010

Needless to say, 1010 is the most addicting game in the App Store. Whenever you need to procrastinate writing your paper or studying for your exam, you know which app is there for you.

7. YikYak

YikYak is the best app for letting you know what weird things are happening at your school. If a friend heard some juicy gossip about that hot upperclassmen, she most likely found out from YikYak.

8. Shazam

When you hear a killer new song at a frat party, but don't know what it's called, don't worry, Shazam is there to save the day.

9. Room for Thought

Room for Thought makes you take a picture at a random time each day so when you're feeling nostalgic just open the app and see the collage of your weirdest memories.

10. Domino's Pizza

If you don't have a Domino's Pizza account by now, then you're probably doing something wrong. What's better than an app that brings pizza right to your dorm?

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Making your life better one app at a time.

1. Snapchat

2. Instagram

3. Venmo

4. Find My iPhone

5. GroupMe

6. 1010

7. YikYak

8. Shazam

9. Room for Thought

10. Domino's Pizza

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

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7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

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10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

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